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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Clavinger, status name for the keeper of the keys in a great household, Latin clavigerus, from clavis ‘key’.
  • George Clevenger was born in Yonkers, NY, in 1654, the son of John Clevenger (born 1633), who probably came from Devon, England.

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